Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines that are as romantic as they are atonal, and intuitive, crosshatched rhythms that emerge and then break off. Helping him project this engaging moodiness are John Gilmore's thin-edged tenor sax, Bobby Hutcherson's delicate vibes, the attentive probings of Bassist Richard Davis and the irregular cymbals of Drummer Joe Chambers. The group's finest moments come in The Groits, which, despite its ugly name, consists of lovely integrated weavings of Hill's almost Monkish chords, Hutcherson's melodic accents and Davis' bass designs...
COMBAT reporting is never a safe or simple job. But even for case-hardened veterans, the Nigerian civil war presents one of the meanest assignments yet. Merely getting in and out of Biafra is a dangerous and doubtful proposition. The irregular airlift from Lisbon flies through Nigerian antiaircraft fire to reach a makeshift airstrip that is only open at night. When correspondents finally manage to get in, they are shuttled off to quarters in the Progress Hotel in Aba, the country's provisional capital. When they are not in the field, they face the hazards of the Progress menu...
Loincloth & Bracelet. The Special Forces came to Viet Nam in 1961. Mov ing out into the jungled hinterland where Saigon exerted little or no control, they recruited irregular forces from minority groups-mostly Montagnard tribesmen-and established fortified base camps. From the beginning, the Americans, unlike the Vietnamese, got along well with the "Yards." It is not unusual to see a Special Forces man, decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages...
...York Post Columnist Max Lerner, the assassination indicates that the "irregular violence" of the American past may be giving way to ideological violence. Though the politics of Europe has always been "heavily ideological," says Lerner, U.S. politics has been pragmatic and personal. "That is now changing. There are passionate isms sweeping the ghettos and the university campuses. Unfortunately, the three traumatic killings of the last five years, which should have taught us how bitter is the fruit of the poisoned tree of ideological passions, do not seem to have carried their lesson home...
...Committee was originally set up following an irregular and bitter demonstration by students in October protesting the recruiting activities at Harvard of an officer of the Dow Chemical Company, which makes napalm. The disruption and confusion that accompanied that incident made it clear that there was an urgent need for discussion between students and the University Establishment on political issues related to the University...